An abandoned terraced house in south London seems a fitting setting for such dark a story. Amongst the peeling walls and bare floorboards of this crumbling Peckham property, unfolds the tragic events of the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre of 1572 when Catholic mobs attacked protestants, known as Huguenots, […]
All board, the Mail Rail is ready to leave! There has been quite a buzz surrounding the opening of the London’s newest underground passenger line. Initial timed weekend tickets sold out months in advance when they were first released, but after a patient wait I have now finally […]
“I want us to disrupt this street,” Rupert Murdoch says after his purchase of the Sun in 1969. The young Australian sheep farmer, turned newspaper proprietor wanted big things from the ailing broadsheet founded five years earlier, which under his watch would be re-born as a lively tabloid. […]
In the final part of my series on the City’s churches, I look at how some needed to be re-built following the IRA bombs of the 1990s and consider how they are preparing for the future. There is a tragic story behind the Gherkin in the heart of […]
Continuing my series on the City of London’s churches, I take a look this week at examples of buildings where only towers and steeples survive. St Dunstan in the East in the City is a place that you will probably have all to yourself if you visit at […]